[Yum] Question on memory requirements

[Brian Long]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:22 +0100, Bart van Kuik wrote:
> >> My questions:
> >> What are yum's memory requirements?
> >> Any tips on how I can best run yum with tight memory limits?
> >It really depends on the size of your repos - but a good minimum given
> >the repos available is about 128M
> 
> Are there any workarounds for this memory requirement?

Have you tried disabling all repos except the base one?  For example:

yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='base' install screen

Of course, base might be "centos" or something else in your case.

/Brian/
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